Nostalgia & History > 1929 Packard on Rails

Imagine seeing one of these inspecting the tracks today. Talk about class.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/27/14 21:11 by Electromotive.

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Judging by the looks of that group, Elliot Ness could be just to the right of the picture.

Kent in CArmel Valley

Any idea what railroad?

They all probably had Tommy Guns.

wabash2800 Wrote:

> Any idea what railroad?

According to this, Canadian Pacific in Toronto, 1944:

http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/inspection/gallery.htm

Scroll down the page and check out the "second" M-235, rebuilt from a Buick, that replaced the Packard.

That's really neat.

Jim

Thank You! from Evan, et-all wag216

Thank you and thanks for that link Evan.

Love the class flags!!!!

About the time that this post appeared, i was reading, Snow, Richard: I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford, and read the following on page 86.

"Still, he [Alexander Winton (June 20, 1860 - June 21, 1932)] sold twenty-two cars in 1898. One of the first went to a customer who didn't think much of it. After some attempts to soothe the man, Winton -- who had a temper -- told him if he thought he could build a better car, then he should go do it. The customer was James Packard, and he did just that."

Winton's carer began with bicycles and progressed into automobile manufacturing. In 1912 he founded the Winton Gas Engine & Manufacturing Company to build marine and diesel engines. The company was sold to General Motors in 1930.

Winton diesel engines powered some of the early streamliners.

OCV

Reminds me of a quote from a book I was reading back in the Sixties about early automobiles. Paraphrasing from distant memory and perhaps one of you people can find it quoting about Buick in a letter to a customer before they joined GM. "We build the best cars available, and when better cars are built, Buick will build them."